Mama Why Don`t You Be Yourself? Lyrics

Mama Why Don`t You Be Yourself? lyrics

Mama, Why Don't You Be Yourself  Trk 18  3:01

Walter Davis

(Walter Davis)

Walter Davis - vocal, Roosevelt Sykes (Willie Kelly) piano

Dallas, Texas Wednesday February 10, 1932 

Album: Walter Davis First Recording 1930-1932

JSP Records #605  RCA #706741-1

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com









My baby looked for me

Way late hours in the night

My baby, she looked for me

Way late hours in the night

But Lord, I never came home

'Till the sun was shinin' bright



Now

Mama, why don't you try to be yo'self?

'Ah, be yo'self

Mmm, mama, why don't you try to be yo'self?

Because I always will love you, baby 

When I don't love nobody else



I was 'cused of murdering

An I had to deny my name

Now, I was 'cused of murdering

An I had to deny my name

Now my girl don't love me

But my mother love me just the same



The girl that I'm loving

She don't mean me no good

The girl that I'm loving

She don't mean me no good

An I don't love nobody

'Round in this neighborhood 



Spoken:

  'I been beggin' her for two weeks

  Just to be herself

  My babe don't treat me good, no mo'

  Keep me worried all the time'



'Play them blues for me'.



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